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| Nine killed in Darra Adam Khel operation |
| 2008-09-02 |
| At least nine people were killed and 52 others injured as the operation against militants in Darra Adam Khel continued for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, Geo News reported. According to the channel, security forces used helicopter gunships and artillery to target suspected hideouts of militants in Orakzai Agency. Army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told the Associated Press, "In our view, the back has been broken. Main leaders are on the run and the people of the area are now openly defying whatever the militants had achieved there." Stray shell: In Bajaur Agency, at least 10 people -- including eight children -- were killed and eight others wounded when an army mortar shell hit a house in the Anayat Kala area, officials and residents told Daily Times. . A Frontier Corps (FC) official confirmed the incident, and said the deceased were civilians and that their death was an accident, AFP reported. Houses burnt: Separately, a tribal lashkar burnt the houses of four local Taliban commanders in the agency's Salarzai tehsil, bringing the number of burnt houses of the Taliban to 18. Locals said militants had been expelled from the Kasai, Pusht, Chelagam, Danqun and Kotki areas, following the formation of the lashkar. |
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